Replenishment

Current WMS or WMS systems are the systems in charge of managing inventory and keeping it alive, although some companies manage it with their ERP, or in retail stores the POS or cash register system. In all cases we can call them Corporate Systems or management systems.

Whatever your corporate warehouse management system is, it often requires complementary systems that help you to convert the actual physical movements into data, which is why it is essential to integrate technology into your management and control systems.

It is vital to be able to execute planned orders and integrate the information into the information systems in an agile and accurate manner. Depending on the environment, product and costs, it is possible to apply one technology or another, but always integrated and as automated as possible.

There are different alternatives and technologies to perform this task efficiently and effectively. Either by working in concatenation with other processes to keep the inventory updated in a permanent way (during picking, for example) or by performing a specific and independent inventory task once every “x” time.

So there is the conventional way of inventory using handheld scanners, but the process must be properly designed to be functional for the operator as the integration with the corporate system.

It is also possible to work in the perpetual inventory at the time of picking, at the time of inputs and outputs, performing A, B, C, etc. counts. Thus optimizing user movements by executing several tasks at the same time (picking and inventory, for example).

Finally, there are innovative solutions that allow mass automated reading without leaving the forklift truck and connected to corporate systems (VMS/WMS). These solutions can work with RFID or intelligent machine vision systems.